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Definition of Inbursts
1. inburst [n] - See also: inburst
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inbursts
Literary usage of Inbursts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mining Engineer (1901)
"Since 1880, whenever the brine is pumped rather low, sudden inbursts of water
occur and more destruction lakes place. A large lake, fully '•]() acres in ..."
2. The Story of the Mine: As Illustrated by the Great Comstock Lode of Nevada by Charles Howard Shinn (1896)
"To chronicle such a contest," wrote one observer, " is to write down an unvaried
record of flooded shafts and levels, of temporary drainage and new inbursts ..."
3. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1894)
"I should add that we were not subjected to sudden inbursts of large quantities
of the gas, and our heavy air-current sufficiently diluted and swept away the ..."
4. Psychology, Descriptive and Explanatory: A Treatise of the Phenomena, Laws by George Trumbull Ladd (1894)
"... and there are changes of memory produced, by further reflection, or due to
sudden inbursts of clearer recognitive recollection, etc. ..."
5. Psychology, Descriptive and Explanatory: A Treatise of the Phenomena, Laws by George Trumbull Ladd (1904)
"... interest, etc., over the deliverances of memory ; and there are changes of
memory produced, by further reflection, or due to sudden inbursts ..."
6. Chimæroid Fishes and Their Development by Bashford Dean (1906)
"Sometimes "drifts" of germinal yolk underlie the coarse yolk; sometimes they
extend obliquely, admitting between them inbursts of coarser yolk. ..."
7. Modern Ideas of Evolution as Related to Revelation and Science by John William Dawson (1890)
"... the favouring conditions of scope for expansion, were, as might rationally be
expected, the accompaniments and secondary causes of new inbursts of life. ..."
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